Li Qingyuan smiled. "Old Zhao, you've reached the Integrated Body Middle Stage. Not bad."
After cultivating anew across two lives, coupled with the accumulations from his previous life, his current Ghost Path Cultivation Method, and his Soul Banner Artifact Spirit body, Old Zhao, at the Integrated Body Middle Stage, possessed combat power greater than that of a Peak Mid Body Integration Stage cultivator and stood incredibly close to the Integrated Body Late Stage.
Even if he could not defeat a true Integrated Body Late Stage cultivator, his combat strength still reached nearly eighty percent of theirs. He could fight them and hold them off.
"Only Little Flame is left." Li Qingyuan thought, I wonder how Little Flame is doing now.
"As long as Little Flame becomes a Spirit Lord too, my Body Integration dream team will be complete."
Whoosh!
A streak of light fled through the air. A Centaur Race Integrated Body Early Stage Spirit Lord arrived, hooves treading the void, with a horse's body and a human face. He respectfully bowed. "Spirit Venerable Qingyuan, the hundred-year agreement has arrived. My Queen invites you."
Li Qingyuan nodded, turned to the others, and instructed them, "Cultivate in seclusion here until I return."
Everyone nodded. "Yes."
Ji Kun was the exception. After refining the Crimson Crow Geng Metal and upgrading the Sky Swallowing Sphere, he had continued cultivating in seclusion with his Perfected Early Body Integration Stage cultivation. He had begun slowly refining the Three Union Golden Crow Fruit, extracting the Sun Origin within.
Ordinary Integrated Body Early Stage, Integrated Body Middle Stage, and even Integrated Body Late Stage cultivators simply could not withstand the tremendous energy of the Eighth Tier Spirit Plant, the Three Union Golden Crow Fruit—much less violent energy like the Sun Origin.
But the Three-Legged Golden Crow